I also have a CT101 and used RBOYs smart app. To be fair mine was a few simple temperate changes. I was able to create routines based on time to duplicate what I had working with RBOYs program. I dont like the fact that I have to create multi routines, but it does work.
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On this page, it was mentioned which SmartApps were going to be transitioned: https://support.smartthings.com/hc/en-us/articles/9339624925204#h_01GCZRZ4J25BX19926NGS04HHT
These are SmartLighting and Severe-Weather Alert.
How are the apps in the Labs section going to be treated @nayelyz ? Are they staying or going
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My webcore has stopped working. In the IDE, every || pause button greyed, and itâs not click-able. From my pistons, look like they stopped receiving events 2 days ago. I hadnât changed anything. Webcore itself is able to create/edit pistons, and I can see them change in the IDE â just no real-time comms to the service.
Is âhobblingâ SmartApps like webcore how weâre expecting this to all to start shutting down?
Itâs been stated for over a year, and intensely for several months, that Webcore would stop working completely.
Theyâre not âhobblingâ it. Itâs being removed permanently. Along with every single custom SmartApp thatâs ever existed. And that fact has been shouted far and wide. Via emails. Via forum posts. Via press releases. Via news articles. Via Reddit. On and on.
Iâll never understand why people donât pay attention to things relating to their intricately set up/critical smart home systemsâŠ
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Sorry, I donât have information about that, Iâll let the team know that youâre interested in getting more details related to that section to see if they can share something.
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Apparently not. So unhelpful. Just ready to pounce, looking for some n00b, eh?
Iâm not a n00b, and of course Iâve been paying attention. I wasnât shouting in surprise that my âintricately set up/critical smart home systemsâ have stopped working (I have been migrating everything, and remain with a few pistons on WC that just canât be replicated in Routines, and as long as I can have them, Iâd like to have them).
Iâll never understand why (some) people feel the need to post ⊠and worse, Like, dumb a55 remarks like this.
I was just letting everyone know that the shutdown hit my WC, and it seems like itâs still ârunningâ but yet not running at the same time â which, to me, is âhobbled.â and not an âelegantâ way to start deprecating SmartApps, or a way to let the people who use the App but donât participate in the community understand what is going on
IMO â in case others have another genius remark to contribute.
The hosting service in the SmartThings cloud has now been shut down for almost all groovy smartapps, including Webcore. So depending on how the UI was designed you might be able to get a few steps in, but it wonât run to completion. 
I personally think itâs more confusing to people that they left the toggle switch there, but thatâs how they did it.
You may have already seen the following thread, but this is a discussion of what people are using as replacements:
They allow the SmartApp entries to still exist so that you can get any parameters or settings out of them, rather than just out and out deleting them from your account. The greyâed out / wonât start sorta indicates that they are no longer functioning, although I agree that could be more obvious if you didnât already know Groovy was due to be shut down. OTOH how much time do you spend on an app UI change when its for a transitional state that doesnât affect all that many of your SmartThings app users (99% of who have no hub, no groovy and no custom apps).
As for letting people know, they did send out email notifications. I know not every one reads email, but Iâm not sure how else to notify. If they added something to the app itself, people would say, âI never use the app - I always use Alexaâ. So its catch-22 on how youâre supposed to notify everyone of everything that is important.
Amazon recently shutdown the Cloud Cam devices. They send out an email several months in advance, then a reminder email a few weeks before. Nothing in the app, nothing on the support page or FAQ for the devices on amazon.com. Iâm not sure how companies reach everyone above the internet noise of daily life.
Let us know if we can assist with your migration. Some people have moved their WebCoRE logic into routines or Smart lighting. Others with large WebCoRE debt bought into Hubitat to use it natively there (export piston from ST, import into HE).
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I think there was a significant difference in that the email that Amazon sent to customers detailed each individual device for them to tell them what was being shut down and also gave them instructions for how to get a free replacement that would work.
The email thanks customers for their support and informs them that, for every active Cloud Cam device they own, Amazon will offer users a complimentary Blink Mini and a one-year Blink Subscription Plus Plan, which covers all the devices under a Blink account.
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The email then details which Cloud Cam products Amazon identified as active on the userâs account and explains how to make the purchase using a promo code. The company says customers have until January 26, 2023, to redeem their code. Each order only allows for one promo code, so customers with larger Cloud Cam setups will have to check out separately for each device they intend to replace.
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A lot of the questions weâve seen in the forum, even from very experienced users, have been âhow do I know if I am affected by these changes?â And Samsung has not really been helpful there.
Iâve talked with a number of people who have no idea whether they have Groovy custom code or not. When they bought a new device or signed up for a new integration, three or four years ago, they were given instructions for how to make that work. But many of them just assumed that was part of the official SmartThings platform. So although they got the emails, they didnât know it applied to them, they thought it was just for people who wrote code. 
Yeah I follow, but at the same time Samsung didnât want to take responsibility for third party stuff (I wouldnât either if I was them). So even mentioning âIf you are using WebCoRE, this means youâ acknowledges they are semi responsible for at least helping people transition off it to something else.
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Understood, but it does seem like the email could include a list of the custom code The person has on their account. And a note to contact the author to see if a version will be available that works with the new architecture. I donât think thatâs the same as taking responsibility for the code. 
That would have been nice, but do you spend clock cycles writing something to generate those emails for the small percentage of people that have custom groovy apps? I dunno.
The Amazon Cloud Cam case is interesting too. My wife has her own Amazon account with several of our cloud cams attached to it. She got the emails, uses the cloud cam app often (but not after the shutdown), etc. Had no idea the shutdown happened until I mentioned it a few weeks ago that we can decide on getting Blink replacements or go with a different product. And sheâs fairly smart home saavy. As you said, 
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It seems to me Samsung did a piss-poor job of communicating specifics. I believe I read every email they sent me, and nowhere in any of them was a list of what devices and/or smartapps I am using with an indicator that they were going to stop working.
Iâve stumbled through the loss of:
- Life360 (replaced with SmartThingsâ own presence sensor, which used to be wildly unreliable)
- ActionTiles (Iâm not subscribed to anything in their Wiki, but when I searched I found they are on top of this, and got myself converted quickly)
- Custom Notifications - câmon Samsung, this is your own damn smartapp, why didnât you tell me you were going to deprecate it so I could find a replacement ahead of the shutdown?
All this while I was hundreds of miles away from home, on vacation. Sigh.
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Blame the victim? Iâll never understand why itâs acceptable for a company to treat a swath of its consumers as if they are employees who are getting paid to deal with an enterprise software migration.
^THIS^ is another reason I moved my critical smart home system to a platform that will continue to work exactly as I set it up⊠until I change it. If I stop paying attention, then it will continue to work as-is.
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Telling us how? I havenât gotten 1 email stating any changes were coming! I wondered why my Life360 integration wasnât working. The presence sensor for SmartThings stinks which is why I moved to using 360. This news and integration shutdown makes me so glad that Iâm leaving the ST ecosystem within the next 6 months for Control 4.
@glenmm SharpTools.io might also a good alternative for you. Lots of WebCoRE users have been making the transition to SharpTools and Iâve been really pleased with how helpful the community has been in helping people with their individual transitions!
100% agree with the challenge here. From the SharpTools side of things, we started sending out emails back in August and included a banner at the top of all our newsletters through December. We also have a big red banner on the main user page of SharpTools, but Iâm still seeing people who are caught off guard by the Groovy shutdown. And as you noted, Iâm not surprised - thereâs a lot of noise in our day-to-day lives.
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